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Speaker 4: Clippers win ugly better than losing pretty. They hold on
Speaker 4: one O two to ninety two after a fourth quarter
Speaker 4: where they had twelve turnovers against the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 4: But you will take the victory, and you will take
Speaker 4: a record of eighteen and thirteen after thirty one games
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Speaker 4: update about Big Mike Well, he was complaining postgame the
Speaker 4: big Golden State Warriors fan my cousin who I did
Speaker 4: a show with.
Speaker 5: Was that yesterday? I think it was yesterday. Days were
Speaker 5: running together.
Speaker 4: He came on to give Golden State Warriors perspective. He's
Speaker 4: upset with Steve Kerr right now. He's pointing to this
Speaker 4: game by Jonathan Kaminga and saying, why doesn't Kerr play
Speaker 4: him more? This is a perfect example of that. Clippers
Speaker 4: three and zero this season against the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 4: And maybe bigger than the victory is the fact that
Speaker 4: it leads to the Clippers having the tiebreaker had to
Speaker 4: head against the Golden State Warriors in the Pack div.
Speaker 4: They only have one more game between them and Golden State,
Speaker 4: so this could help keep Golden State below them in
Speaker 4: the standings. We don't know what they could be up to.
Speaker 4: Maybe they make a move, maybe they bring in Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 4: I don't think they're giving up on this season. They're
Speaker 4: fifteen and fifteen now. Still some good performances. A really
Speaker 4: good third quarter by the Clippers where they played great
Speaker 4: sound basketball, the antithesis of what we saw in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter.
Speaker 5: First you have.
Speaker 4: Zoo to DJ for a dunk, even though the past
Speaker 4: was the Norman Powell. Then big Zoo spinning in the
Speaker 4: paint for a dunk himself. In the third, Dereck Jones Jr.
Speaker 4: The steal to the two handed dunk Zoo pushed past
Speaker 4: the norm for a reverse layup. I mean they are
Speaker 4: executing out there. Remember they were just up by I
Speaker 4: want to say six at the half. It was a
Speaker 4: score we forget, want to say, yeah, forty nine to
Speaker 4: forty three. Dj Has one of the quickest Derreck Jones Jr.
Speaker 4: Has one of the quickest second jumps I've seen since
Speaker 4: Shawn Marion who coach Louke compared Trenton Flowers too recently.
Speaker 4: But Dereck Jones Jr. His second jump crazy. He put
Speaker 4: him up by ten in the third. That was their
Speaker 4: largest lead at that point. It was fifty nine to
Speaker 4: forty nine. And then the putback dunk he had with
Speaker 4: the left hand. That's one of the best dunks of
Speaker 4: the season by this Clippers team. Nasty airplane mode, lying
Speaker 4: in just hovering in a holding pattern. It felt like
Speaker 4: how long you're watching him in the air? Then done
Speaker 4: clamped Dennis shrewder out of a time out and gets
Speaker 4: a turnover hardened jumper. Clippers are up fifteen. They went
Speaker 4: on a fourteen to three run. They were not done yet. Well,
Speaker 4: Golden State started to battle back. Wigginson a jumper, Harden
Speaker 4: to fall away kminga bucket. There'd be more of those.
Speaker 4: Really nice defensive play by Norm to swipe the ball
Speaker 4: out of bounds after a turnover where it looked like
Speaker 4: Golden State was gonna have a two on one with
Speaker 4: Pods getting an easy layup and Norm got back on
Speaker 4: defense in time, but then Pods.
Speaker 5: Had a floater.
Speaker 4: They're back two, being up by just nine in the
Speaker 4: third quarter of a Toomb three that was really a
Speaker 4: big silencer shot that put the Clippers back up by twelve,
Speaker 4: and good defense, multiple good defensive plays by Hard than
Speaker 4: this one. He had a big block in the first half.
Speaker 4: He had a play on Santos in the third quarter
Speaker 4: who turned it over a big done three. He needs
Speaker 4: that shot. Clippers are back up by fifteen to the third.
Speaker 4: Then Hard blocks Pods, it turns into a jump ball.
Speaker 4: Amr hits a three off a hard and pass. They're
Speaker 4: up sixteen, but Toom long rebound off a hard miss
Speaker 4: got the offensive board got its Norm pal he hits
Speaker 4: a three. Clippers are up by nineteen. They got up
Speaker 4: by as many as twenty one and heading into that
Speaker 4: fourth quarter, yeah, it felt like.
Speaker 5: They had a secure lead.
Speaker 4: Given no Steph Curry, no Draymond Green gear up twenty one.
Speaker 4: It's eighty one to sixty two. There should be nineteen there.
Speaker 4: But they were up as many as twenty one. Third
Speaker 4: quarter and the Clippers completely let out a sire leaf,
Speaker 4: I think, and it was as uncomfortable as I have
Speaker 4: seen a team when it comes to trying to break
Speaker 4: a press in a fourth quarter. I think partly because
Speaker 4: maybe just the ball handlers or lack thereof, partly because
Speaker 4: of Golden State, and the third part was because the
Speaker 4: Clippers were just flat out lazy with the basketball. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna call it what it is. There were unforced errors,
Speaker 4: there were passes that should have been made, and then
Speaker 4: other passes that should not have been made. That was
Speaker 4: a miserable fourth quarter. I have to be honest about that.
Speaker 4: You will take the win, But twelve turnovers in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter by my box score, it's somewhere between ten
Speaker 4: and twelve in a quarter when you're trying to close
Speaker 4: out a game. All they needed was one run to
Speaker 4: put them away, and they couldn't do it. And it
Speaker 4: started the very first possession of the fourth where they
Speaker 4: couldn't get out of the back court. There's about to
Speaker 4: be an eight second violation. Coach Luke calls the time out.
Speaker 4: He saw what was happening. He calls another one early
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter. Two timeouts right away. I think
Speaker 4: he knew this was something they needed to work on
Speaker 4: and they needed to focus on. Obviously, the guys weren't
Speaker 4: able to execute. Whatever his message was that was nasty
Speaker 4: that fourth quarter. I'm not gonna dwell on to the
Speaker 4: point and say, yeah, it's still a victory. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna say it ruined the night or something like that.
Speaker 4: I am gonna say other teams are gonna look at
Speaker 4: this tape because it has happened at times in fourth
Speaker 4: quarters late this season where the Clippers have had some
Speaker 4: really bad turnovers. They've had a couple on inbounds passes
Speaker 4: where they couldn't get the ball in or they threw
Speaker 4: it away. Grayson Allen had that steal for Phoenix against them.
Speaker 4: I remember, these are the little things that lead to
Speaker 4: losses against good teams, because you're not gonna be up
Speaker 4: twenty one if they just had Steph Curry tonight. You're
Speaker 4: not up by twenty one, you're not up by nineteen.
Speaker 4: Heading against the fourth Fortunately for the Clippers, Golden State
Speaker 4: couldn't hit. They were seven of thirty eight from distance.
Speaker 4: Clippers were ten to thirty two. They were bad too,
Speaker 4: but Golden State shot eighteen percent from three. But what's
Speaker 4: amazing is they got back into this game, obviously without
Speaker 4: making threes. Their first three of the second half. I
Speaker 4: want to say it was midway through the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: They were getting easy layups, they were back to gain
Speaker 4: some offensive rebounds. Those were problems tonight for the Clippers,
Speaker 4: especially in the first half. That's what kept Golden Sie
Speaker 4: stayed in and I think they took nine or ten
Speaker 4: more shots in the first half even though they were
Speaker 4: shooting under forty percent from the field. So make no mistake,
Speaker 4: I can't imagine coach lew Is happy even after a victory,
Speaker 4: because that's how it has to be. It's not about
Speaker 4: winning with style points. It's about playing the game the
Speaker 4: right way. It's about running through the tape and continuing
Speaker 4: to play hard, possession to possession. Clippers were fortunate in
Speaker 4: some ways. I'm not saying they got away with one
Speaker 4: because they're the ones that build up a twenty one
Speaker 4: point lead. They earned that lead, They earned the ability
Speaker 4: to play that poorly late and still come out with
Speaker 4: a victory. But you don't want to see a team
Speaker 4: back into a win like that. And what worries me
Speaker 4: most is how other teams could be licking their chops
Speaker 4: seeing the Clippers unravel and fall apart like that on
Speaker 4: a full core press. Now you can take the other
Speaker 4: side and say it's great, they got out of their
Speaker 4: system now and coach lou has this tape to look at,
Speaker 4: and so it gives them something to work on. That's
Speaker 4: the upside and that's valid. I just felt like the
Speaker 4: effort and the energy. There was some lifeless basketball being played,
Speaker 4: some unseerious basketball in the fourth quarter, and we don't
Speaker 4: normally say that about the Clippers.
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Speaker 4: I think this is a great comment and we'll take
Speaker 4: a time out here. Sheriff Og said, I am concerned
Speaker 4: about Done being the second ball handler come playoffs, terrible
Speaker 4: turnover star with him infected everyone else.
Speaker 5: He had some.
Speaker 4: Of those bad turnovers in the back court, like he
Speaker 4: had late in that game against Minnesota where he threw
Speaker 4: it right to Anthony Edwards. Dunn had a few instances
Speaker 4: of that in the first half another in the second half.
Speaker 4: I'm not picking on Chris Dunn, but he has to
Speaker 4: be better. He had five turnovers, Hard had six, Norm
Speaker 4: had four. Those guys cannot be turning the ball over
Speaker 4: like that because those are the ones you rely on.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Without KPJ, they were missing an extra ball handler. Without
Speaker 4: Terrence Man, you're missing one. But some of the Chris
Speaker 4: Dunn turnovers were very much of the head scratcher variety.
Speaker 4: And it's been a trend with him where he throws
Speaker 4: into the opposition as he's getting the ball up into.
Speaker 5: The front court. I don't like seeing that.
Speaker 4: Some warning signs in this game, maybe, but it gives
Speaker 4: the Clippers a chance to work on them while coming
Speaker 4: through with the victory. Still, he threw it to Davis
Speaker 4: for that dunk in the second quarter Trace Jackson. Davis
Speaker 4: just threw it right to him, and I think the
Speaker 4: book is out. This is why I still feel like, hey,
Speaker 4: you're looking at the guy if you're watching on YouTube
Speaker 4: or listening to the guy on a five seventy LA
Speaker 4: Sports that has been telling you, I think they need
Speaker 4: another playmaker. That's the priority over a four or backup big.
Speaker 4: Here's why, guys exhibit A the game tonight. They need
Speaker 4: another guy with on ball juice. We'll talk more about
Speaker 4: that coming up. This is Clippers Talk. I'm out of
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Speaker 4: Clippers pull through after things got dicey, These got sketchy late.
Speaker 4: It was a three point game with about three minutes left.
Speaker 4: Slippers hold on. They win one oh two to ninety
Speaker 4: two over the Golden State Warriors in a game where
Speaker 4: they led by twenty one in by nineteen hanging into
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter, and the Clippers had four points the
Speaker 4: first five minutes of the fourth. We were looking at
Speaker 4: a historically bad quarter. At one point, it was unbelievably bad.
Speaker 4: So they come through, they get the win, but you
Speaker 4: want to see better execution effort. I mean they had
Speaker 4: four points, guys, they had four points in the fourth
Speaker 4: quarter through till the four fifty four point thirty six mark,
Speaker 4: so we're talking like five and a half minutes, and
Speaker 4: they had scored four points and probably had already eight
Speaker 4: turnovers up to that point. They would end up with
Speaker 4: twelve turnovers in the fourth quarter. I'm not trying to
Speaker 4: be overly critical. I'm talking about stuff that can get
Speaker 4: you beat later on if you don't clean it up.
Speaker 4: Now they have a chance to clean it up. They
Speaker 4: can do that, and that is the positive. They looked
Speaker 4: tired at times, they looked disinterested at times in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter, like oh, we're up nineteen Golden Stags's nef steph,
Speaker 4: We're good, we can park the bus. Is that what
Speaker 4: is called in soccer football?
Speaker 5: Sit it on a lead. They did. They escaped.
Speaker 4: They earned it because they got it by two one.
Speaker 4: But you don't want to see a team almost give
Speaker 4: it away. You don't want to see a team get
Speaker 4: exposed for maybe having a real flaw like that against
Speaker 4: a full court press. I'm telling you I have been
Speaker 4: talking about needing another ball handler as the number one
Speaker 4: priority for a while. Ryan Stemen and I were talking
Speaker 4: about it a couple of weeks ago. Everybody talks about
Speaker 4: powerfulward backup center. No, I'm more concerned about not having
Speaker 4: someone more surehanded with the basketball. I was hoping when
Speaker 4: things got a little bit testy in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: when there was some pushing in shoven.
Speaker 5: Remember when they pushed it in shove.
Speaker 4: It's the only love that that would light a fire
Speaker 4: and bring the competitive intensity back out of the Clippers.
Speaker 4: You had that play with pods flying it a mere
Speaker 4: coffee's knees. It wasn't intentional, but it was dangerous. It
Speaker 4: looked reckless. We called it the Draymond Green tribute on
Speaker 4: the air, That's what it looked like. I thought that
Speaker 4: might get more out of the Clippers, And look, part
Speaker 4: of it was just beats. The zoobots was getting doubled.
Speaker 4: They still should have got the ball to him more
Speaker 4: because he was passing out of it all right, And
Speaker 4: they finally did, and he was kind of that safety
Speaker 4: valve release for them when they needed some buckets late,
Speaker 4: when again they had four points almost six minutes in
Speaker 4: to the fourth quarter, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 5: That's historically bad.
Speaker 4: So if you're wondering, why oh Adams being overly harsh
Speaker 4: and just celebrate the wins like man, I'm looking ahead.
Speaker 4: I am looking at future games. I am looking at
Speaker 4: a team that is trying to build championship habits. That's
Speaker 4: what I care about. So yeah, I'm gonna be overly
Speaker 4: critical at times. When they win a ballgame and have
Speaker 4: a fourth quarter like this, I can criticize and also
Speaker 4: praise some of their work tonight. The third quarter was
Speaker 4: damn near masterful, but the fourth was a disaster, a
Speaker 4: disaster class. Yeah, if they traded for Calling Sexton, they
Speaker 4: probably have to give up man. Man is an asset.
Speaker 4: I don't want to see him go, but the Clippers
Speaker 4: have to look at everything. I don't think anybody should
Speaker 4: be off off the table in a year like this.
Speaker 4: And now we get the news that Kawhi Leonard is
Speaker 4: likely to be back depending on how the next week goes.
Speaker 4: But the target date is in according to the Lot
Speaker 4: Murray of the Athletic, they're targeting January fourth, the next
Speaker 4: time they're back here, add into a dome and they're
Speaker 4: taking on the Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 5: If there's no setback.
Speaker 4: Between now and then, you would expect him to play.
Speaker 4: He's not going on the road trip because they play
Speaker 4: three and four, so they don't have time for practices,
Speaker 4: so he's gonna stay back here and practice with the
Speaker 4: G League team. Awesome, everything's trending the right way with
Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard right now.
Speaker 5: Great to hear.
Speaker 4: Right nothing is set in stone because it depends on
Speaker 4: how his knee responds to these next practices. But if
Speaker 4: everything goes according to plan, according to Lotmuri of the Athletic,
Speaker 4: he's playing January fourth, and he'll you on a minister restriction,
Speaker 4: but that would be a side for sore eyes. Charles
Speaker 4: is saying Sexton is too small.
Speaker 5: He's six ' three. I understand.
Speaker 4: That's not you know, five ten, he's he's not CP three.
Speaker 4: Why did they call time out ten seconds into the
Speaker 4: fourth because Coach Lou said, oh, they're pressing and we're
Speaker 4: not ready for it, and they're about to have an
Speaker 4: eight second violation. That's a brilliant time out by coach
Speaker 4: Lou to try to get their attention right away. Did
Speaker 4: the guys execute No, But that's on them.
Speaker 5: Coach Loo did everything. He could.
Speaker 4: He told him how to break the press, Why would
Speaker 4: they not call time out? Then they're trying this is
Speaker 4: Coach Lou had the mindset and a sense of urgency
Speaker 4: out there that hey, we're gonna keep playing the right
Speaker 4: way through the end of this game. It wasn't oh,
Speaker 4: I better hold onto this time out in cases down
Speaker 4: to a three point game late. That's not how Coach
Speaker 4: Lou was trying to play it. It shouldn't have come
Speaker 4: down to that if the guys came out there and
Speaker 4: played the right way and understood what the Golden State
Speaker 4: Warriors were doing against them. But they didn't handle their
Speaker 4: ball pressure well at all, and Coach Lou saw it
Speaker 4: early and knew they had to do something about it.
Speaker 5: That's on the players. You can only teach him so much.
Speaker 4: Some of those turnovers, guys like had nothing to do
Speaker 4: with Coach Lou think he's telling him make those terrible passes. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's gonna be some accountability appreciation you Nick Ramos for
Speaker 4: the super chat. Mobama is a liability, he says, so
Speaker 4: he paid one ninety nine to.
Speaker 5: Get that.
Speaker 4: In all caps, Mobama does not looked good the last
Speaker 4: two weeks at all I thought he looked good the
Speaker 4: first two weeks back with the Clippers. Coach lu said,
Speaker 4: A practiced yesterday. He's still learning, he's still getting up
Speaker 4: to speed. He didn't plays so much early on the season,
Speaker 4: but Mobamas looked bad the last two weeks, no doubt
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 5: I hope he can turn around.
Speaker 4: I think he can because he looked good early on
Speaker 4: when he first came in, like he was playing with
Speaker 4: energy and motor when he first suited it up with
Speaker 4: the Clippers the first couple of games. I really liked
Speaker 4: what I saw. I said, Okay, he looks better than
Speaker 4: Mason Plumbley. That's all I need. Somebody that plays better
Speaker 4: than Mason Plumbley did last season. Ryan Rojas said Miller
Speaker 4: lost his confidence. I agree Jordan Miller. I think he
Speaker 4: is dealing with some confidence issues. He airballed to three
Speaker 4: in this one. He turned down some shots and he
Speaker 4: got ripped or had a turnover at the rim. Teams
Speaker 4: are scheming for him now they know what his strengths are.
Speaker 4: The scouting reports out. We'll take a quick time out.
Speaker 4: I'm out a Maslin. Clippers win tonight by ten over
Speaker 4: Golden State.
Speaker 5: This things got touched and go down the stretch, but.
Speaker 4: They pulled it through their eighth teen and thirteen on
Speaker 4: the season without Kawhi Leonard. More Clippers sock next coming
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Speaker 4: Clippers win one O two to ninety two over the
Speaker 4: Golden State Warriors. Third victory over Golden State this season.
Speaker 4: First two were more impressive for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 4: Steph Curry and Draymond played in those. And then the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter with the Clippers almost having a monumental collapse
Speaker 4: leading by nineteen heading into it and it was down
Speaker 4: to a three point game with just minutes remaining. Huge
Speaker 4: three pointer and made by Norman Powell, a big floater
Speaker 4: from James Harden, some free throws.
Speaker 5: To DJ.
Speaker 4: I almost say DeAndre Jordan because when I think of
Speaker 4: alley oops, I think of Brandon Knight.
Speaker 5: And Ralph Lawler are on the call. Derek Jones Jr.
Speaker 4: With an aloop when the Clippers are actually able to
Speaker 4: break the press. One out of I don't know fifteen times,
Speaker 4: welcome back in. I'm out of Maslin. It's Clippers Tuck. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm looking for some postgame audio from coach Lou law
Speaker 4: Murray has the same twelve fourth quarter turnover number that
Speaker 4: I have. Two shot clock violations, guys like this was
Speaker 4: so brutal. I just I can't emphasize how poorly played
Speaker 4: that fourth quarter was.
Speaker 5: I didn't even know what I was watching.
Speaker 4: Tylu said postgame the Clippers have been working in practice
Speaker 4: on plays they run for Kawhi Leonard, so the team
Speaker 4: is up to speed when he comes back. Specifically mentioned
Speaker 4: the team's new players getting used, getting used, getting used
Speaker 4: to playing alongside him, new players getting used to playing
Speaker 4: alongside Kawhi Leonard. I want to see if he has
Speaker 4: any fire and brimstone for the way the Clippers entered
Speaker 4: this ball game, as we certainly have been talking about it.
Speaker 4: What was up with pods? He was taking the wrath
Speaker 4: of the wall, hearing into it. Tom, you guys were
Speaker 4: killing Brandon Pozzimski. Was it just the foul, the hard
Speaker 4: foul on a mere coffee? Was there something else that
Speaker 4: happened that I missed because you guys were letting him
Speaker 4: hear it.
Speaker 5: And I'm here for it.
Speaker 4: Impressive showing from Clipper Nation. The wall was loud once again.
Speaker 4: I don't think there was any free chicken one. But
Speaker 4: Golden State ended up instead of missing ten free throws
Speaker 4: like last time, they cut that in half and only
Speaker 4: missed five. But Golden State, they're actually the worst free
Speaker 4: throw shooting team in the league, and this is the
Speaker 4: toughest place to hit free throws at. Hear it into
Speaker 4: a dome thanks to Euclipper Nation. I understand not trying
Speaker 4: to be overly critical or pile on, but it is
Speaker 4: a storyline coming out of this game, just how poorly
Speaker 4: the Clippers played in the fourth quarter, and I do
Speaker 4: want to flip it a little bit and talk about
Speaker 4: some of the things that went well, Like I visa
Speaker 4: Zubats being featured early in the game. First play the game,
Speaker 4: he dunks on Trace Jackson Davis.
Speaker 5: He gets a floater.
Speaker 4: To make it thirteen to nine and and won with
Speaker 4: the right handed hook over Looney another right handed hook.
Speaker 5: He's got eight points in the first eight minutes. He
Speaker 5: was really good.
Speaker 4: I wish they featured Ai more in this game. He
Speaker 4: was my player to watch. He still finished with seventeen
Speaker 4: to eleven, but the Clippers were getting out rebounded in
Speaker 4: the first half by a pretty large margin as they
Speaker 4: were not cleaning the defensive glass. In fact, at the half,
Speaker 4: the Golden State Warriors had I want to say, eleven
Speaker 4: offensive rebounds, yes, it was eleven offensive rebounds. They got
Speaker 4: up forty nine shots in the first half, the Clippers forty.
Speaker 4: By the end of it, the rebounding numbers were forty
Speaker 4: seven to thirty nine because the fourth quarter ended up
Speaker 4: going against the Clippers in that area after they started
Speaker 4: to clean things up in the rebounding department, where after
Speaker 4: the third quarter it was only thirty six to thirty two,
Speaker 4: and the Clippers had five offensive rebounds in the third
Speaker 4: quarter compared to two make it three for the Golden
Speaker 4: State Warriors, so they were competing better there. But the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter Golden State got extra possessions out there again.
Speaker 4: And it's not easy to win a game where the
Speaker 4: opposition gets twenty more shots up than you.
Speaker 5: It's not easy.
Speaker 4: Here's how it happens. That same team that got twenty
Speaker 4: more shots up shot thirty seven percent from the field
Speaker 4: and eighteen percent from three. That was Golden State tonight,
Speaker 4: Clippers weren't great from three ten of thirty two, but
Speaker 4: the Golden State only hit one three in the second half.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was two.
Speaker 4: They hit one three in the second half. So wait,
Speaker 4: they're six of twenty one at the half.
Speaker 5: They finish, Oh.
Speaker 4: My goodness, one for their last what is that seventeen?
Speaker 5: And what is that thirty eight? Let me make sure
Speaker 5: our math is right here. It's hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were one for their last seventeen from three
Speaker 4: Golden State.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's fortunate. That's just not that.
Speaker 4: It's not only like great defense or Steph Curry not
Speaker 4: being there. That is a miserable, willfully bad shooting like
Speaker 4: stormtroopers type of night. Clippers are now fifth in the West.
Speaker 4: I need to check up, check out the standings. As normally,
Speaker 4: we would have our guy Daniel West with a Western
Speaker 4: Conference update in the final segment, but we're having technical issues.
Speaker 4: I can't hear them, so I'll have to do it tonight.
Speaker 4: But he'll be back on Monday night. We'll take a
Speaker 4: quick time out, we'll come back. We'll talk about the
Speaker 4: stay of the Western Conference. After the Clippers improved to
Speaker 4: it should be.
Speaker 5: Eighteen and three. Why the seventeen and three.
Speaker 4: Come on ESPN standings update it. I'll have to go
Speaker 4: to NBA dot com.
Speaker 5: Why would I ever trust the evil four letter Clippers
Speaker 5: win one O.
Speaker 4: Two to ninety two over the Golden State Warriors. I'm
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Speaker 4: This is Clippers top post game after they win one
Speaker 4: O two to ninety two over the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 4: Here at into a Dome, Home sweet home. We're on
Speaker 4: the season now. The Clippers are eleven and six at
Speaker 4: home after starting off losing their first four games, and
Speaker 4: I think they won nine straight. I get their eleventh
Speaker 4: victory their third against the Golden State Warriors, so they
Speaker 4: have the head to head tiebreaker. That is huge because
Speaker 4: there's still only what two games up on the Golden
Speaker 4: State Warriors. I think in the standings looking for a
Speaker 4: standings update here. Appreciate you guys. You know good help
Speaker 4: is hard to find here. ESPN dot com does not
Speaker 4: have the standings update yet, so I'll go to NBA
Speaker 4: dot com. Unfortunately, I can't get to your phone calls,
Speaker 4: and I do want to apologize for that tonight. It's
Speaker 4: just one of those things technical issues rarely ever happens.
Speaker 4: It's all good, though. You can get in on the
Speaker 4: chat side at Clippers Talk on YouTube. Everybody praised in
Speaker 4: the new Kawhi Leonard commercial, which I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 4: I've liked the new Balance commercials he has done the
Speaker 4: first one he did, or he's like playing the piano,
Speaker 4: he's playing like pantomiming the strings. That was That's probably
Speaker 4: my favorite basketball commercial in the last ten years. That
Speaker 4: was back in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, somewhere in there.
Speaker 4: So the Clippers are eighteen and thirteen and currently fifth,
Speaker 4: fifth in the West. Fifth eighteen and thirteen. Who are
Speaker 4: they above the Lakers who are seventeen and thirteen.
Speaker 5: You gotta like that.
Speaker 4: Okay, see, of course, still the pace car they're twenty
Speaker 4: four and five. So the Clippers are seven games back
Speaker 4: of the number one seed, but there are only three
Speaker 4: games back of the Houston Rockets, who are in the
Speaker 4: three spot. The problem is they've beatn the Clippers three
Speaker 4: times so far this season, so they have the tiebreaker.
Speaker 5: They still play them one more time. They are only two.
Speaker 4: Games back of the Dallas Mavericks, who are in the
Speaker 4: fourth spot. In case you were wondering, the Memphis Grizzlies
Speaker 4: are still in the two spot, who the Clippers beat
Speaker 4: last Monday. But the Clippers two games behind Dallas in
Speaker 4: that four spot. And unfortunately Luka Doncis is out for
Speaker 4: a significant amount of time with what a calf injury,
Speaker 4: something I think he has dealt with them in the
Speaker 4: past has kept him out of games. So look, I
Speaker 4: hate to see it, but the Clippers may have an
Speaker 4: opportunity here to make up some ground against Dallas, who
Speaker 4: they got the split with in the first two games
Speaker 4: they've played against them. Dallas, though I believe one earlier tonight,
Speaker 4: unless I'm mistaken because I didn't check back on that score. Yeah,
Speaker 4: ninety eight to eighty nine in Phoenix Without Luka Doncics,
Speaker 4: there's still a really good and deep ball club. So
Speaker 4: the people are saying Luca could be out for about
Speaker 4: a month. The Clippers need to uh make some hay there.
Speaker 4: They need to gain some grounds and get into a
Speaker 4: top four seed in the Western Conference. And when you
Speaker 4: look at the upcoming schedule for the Clippers, guys, I
Speaker 4: don't want to say it's favorable, but there are winnable
Speaker 4: games in there, like their next two on the road
Speaker 4: in New Orleans against a team that is just so
Speaker 4: beat up this season. They're the worst team in the
Speaker 4: Western Conference because of all the injuries. They're five and
Speaker 4: twenty seven, They're one to nine in their last ten games.
Speaker 4: They can they've lost nine in a row. They can't
Speaker 4: compete at times right now, don't overlook them. You have
Speaker 4: a couple of quarters like the Clippers had the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: You will lose that game on Monday, but as a
Speaker 4: front end of a back to back, so even more
Speaker 4: important to get the jump on the Pelicans so you
Speaker 4: can be a little bit better rested for the game
Speaker 4: on New Year's Eve in San Antonio against the Spurs
Speaker 4: on Tuesday, then Thursday day off, New Year's Day. January second,
Speaker 4: they're taking on the OKC thunder Then they got a
Speaker 4: day off and that's on the road, by the way,
Speaker 4: and they're back January fourth taking on the Atlanta Hawks
Speaker 4: and law Murray of the Athletic has reported that is
Speaker 4: the target date for Kawhi Leonard's return. Huge that is,
Speaker 4: if everything goes well in practices like things have been
Speaker 4: so far, Yes, he can be back for that date.
Speaker 4: He will be, according to Law Murray of the Athletic,
Speaker 4: as long as there's no setbacks between now and then.
Speaker 5: So Coach Lou postgame.
Speaker 4: Did credit the team for keeping their composure late in
Speaker 4: the fourth quarters the Warriors trim.
Speaker 5: The lead from twenty one to three.
Speaker 4: Lou also created the Warriors ball pressure in the fourth
Speaker 4: for the Clippers turnovers. Quote in three days, I won't
Speaker 4: even remember how we won. It's a w So coach
Speaker 4: Lou is turned the page. I'm interested behind the scenes
Speaker 4: on what could be happening when it comes to film
Speaker 4: study on how bad that fourth quarter went, because coach
Speaker 4: Lou has been critical even it wins before, but this
Speaker 4: is one where maybe he is thinking about burning the
Speaker 4: tape in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Have I talked about Kawhi. Yes, I've talked about Kawhi.
Speaker 4: I had Law Murray on the pregame show. I think
Speaker 4: I've talked a ton about Kawhi. I did a show
Speaker 4: on Christmas Day about Kawhi Leonard what Santa Claus could
Speaker 4: look like when he returns.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard's first eight games back from the ACL, he
Speaker 4: was getting about eleven twelve points per game on eleven
Speaker 4: shots per game. He really took it easy at first
Speaker 4: and then started to hit the gas a little bit
Speaker 4: after a game against the Boston Celtics late in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two in December where he had twenty five points.
Speaker 4: But first eight games he was shooting forty percent from
Speaker 4: the field. I think it was like fifteen percent from
Speaker 4: three when he first came back from the ACL. Like Kawhi,
Speaker 4: I expect him to start slow. I expect people to
Speaker 4: start making jokes immediately and saying he's washed or he's
Speaker 4: lost a step. We just heard from Jordan Miller yesterday.
Speaker 4: By the way of practicing, I don't think he's lost
Speaker 4: step at all. Talking about how good he has looked
Speaker 4: in the mid range, how difficult it is to defend him,
Speaker 4: because I've always said this, but Kawhi looks through defenders.
Speaker 4: You have a hand in his face, you're right there,
Speaker 4: and he still sticks those tough shot, perfectly defended shots
Speaker 4: in the mid range. That's who Kawhi is. That's his
Speaker 4: bread and butter. He's a forty seven percent career shooter
Speaker 4: from ten to sixteen feet out.
Speaker 5: That's elite.
Speaker 4: That's Jordan Esku really, so I have not talked to
Speaker 4: Kawhi outside of media day. One time, I was turning
Speaker 4: into the corner in the tunnel back at Crypto where
Speaker 4: the pregame media presser was and Kawhi was just coming
Speaker 4: from his pregame warm up session and he laughed and
Speaker 4: did the Kawhi laugh. He was laughing to something. He
Speaker 4: was talking to a trainer right in my ear. As
Speaker 4: I was turning the corner, he passed right by me
Speaker 4: and did the Kawhi laugh in my ear and that
Speaker 4: was a special pinch me type of moment because he
Speaker 4: is probably my favorite player in the NBA, like before
Speaker 4: he was a Clipper, because I just love guys. There
Speaker 4: are two way players like this and the way he
Speaker 4: elevates his game in the playoffs. I just want to
Speaker 4: see him be able to start and finish a playoff run,
Speaker 4: get healthy, claw they need him because he has another
Speaker 4: ball handle like him out here on the floor in
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter. Somebody that is pretty sound with taking
Speaker 4: care of the basketball. That would have helped. Of course,
Speaker 4: Clippers still come through. They win one oh soon or
Speaker 4: ninety two over the Golden State Warriors. And before we
Speaker 4: get out of here tonight on Clippers Talk, I do
Speaker 4: want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Bryan Seaman,
Speaker 4: Noah Eagle. The impression he did of his dad and
Speaker 4: him having an argument, by the way, is must listen
Speaker 4: to or must watch video. I think Bleacher Report picked
Speaker 4: it up. It's got a few million views.
Speaker 5: On X check that out with NOA.
Speaker 4: Eagle, our guy who's been putting in big work the
Speaker 4: last week on the NFL side, including on Christmas Day,
Speaker 4: Carlojmenez putting in that work tonight hear it into it Dome.
Speaker 4: Great call, Carlo, Big thanks to big brother Jake Warner,
Speaker 4: our head engineer. It was good to see him again.
Speaker 4: Guy's been playing hurt for some time, not complaining. I
Speaker 4: complain more healthy than Big Bro complains with a fractured arm.
Speaker 4: But we're happy he's safe and he's back with us here.
Speaker 4: Also big thanks to the listeners, the chatters. I'm sorry
Speaker 4: we couldn't get your phone calls.
Speaker 5: We'll do it on Monday.
Speaker 4: We'll get to more phone calls on Monday as our
Speaker 4: guy Daniel West will be helping me screen them. Daniel
Speaker 4: West doing big work back in Burbank, our producer there.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Daniel. If you're saying anything in my ear,
Speaker 4: I can't hear you, but that's all good. We'll get
Speaker 4: it worked out on Monday until Monday with the Clippers
Speaker 4: in New Orleans. Take it on the Pelicans. Tip off
Speaker 4: at five pregame at four. I'm at a Mosland.
Speaker 5: We'll talk to you then.
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